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Summit of the SAP Community: Competence Center
The event was organized by the E-3 publishing house B4Bmedia.net in cooperation with the renowned SAP consultant Johannes N. Szalachy from ASAP@ITCONSULTING. He had 2022 a S/4 column in E-3 Magazine in preparation for upcoming CCC assignments.
The following Summit program offers a download of the respective technical presentations. For further questions, the sponsors and partners also provide the corresponding contact persons. Thus, downstream questions can be answered quickly and easily. And of course there will be another SAP Competence Center Summit in Salzburg next year on June 5 and 6, 2024.
A first insight from Summit 2023 is the certainty that there are numerous partners in the SAP community who have extensive experience in SAP Basis work - from SolMan to Cloud ALM. On the other hand, SAP seems to have little interest in the foundation of the community at the moment. There was a perfect keynote by Uwe Grigoleit, SVP SAP, on the topic of S/4 Hana, Signavio and automated testing, but the more than 100 participants searched in vain for further commitment from SAP.
Without a robust foundation focused on security, automation, testing, monitoring and ALM, SAP's existing customers will not be able to meet challenges such as IT staffing shortages, digital transformation, cyber defense and coding.
If you have any further suggestions or ideas for the SAP Competence Center Summit 2024, please do not hesitate to contact me. Please call me at +49/8654/77130-21 or write to me at pmf@b4bmedia.net.
Thank you for your commitment.
Editor in Chief E-3 Magazine
Program
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Welcome
Peter M. Färbinger,
E-3 Editor in Chief, B4Bmedia.net
John N. Szalachy
IT Consultant, ASAP@ITCONSULTING
The continuation of the legendary CCC/CCoE Forum will take place in the form of the Competence Center Summit 2023 in Salzburg.
S/4 Conversion
Dr. Uwe Grigoleit,
SVP, Customer Evolution Program, SAP
Successful S/4 conversion needs a perfect SAP foundation together with Signavio, Cloud ALM, BTP and test automation
Possibilities with RAP/CAP, Steampunk and BTP
Christian Knell,
Managing Director, Snap
Why should on-prem customers (SAP Private Cloud) prepare now for the new possibilities with RAP/CAP, Steampunk and Business Technology Platform? What know-how is needed?
Legally well equipped for the S/4 conversion
Dr. Jana Jentzsch,
Attorney at Law, JIT Legal
The many aspects of new S/4 licenses based on existing SAP systems are a topic for specialists.
Exhibition and lunch
Mirabell 4-5 Mirabell 1-3
Application
Management Services
Dipl.-Ing. Markus Hein
Head of BCC AMS and SAP Technology, msg Plaut Austria
Application Management Services: External operation + happy users = freedom for innovation
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"SAP implementations are the climb. In glide, passengers are well taken care of, storms are flown around, and deviations are quickly corrected. AMS fulfills exactly these tasks: Safe operation through professional handling of incidents and changes. msg Plaut thus relieves the SAP CCC."
Speaker: Dipl.-Ing. Markus Hein
One-Click Transformation and
S/4 powered by JiVS
Tobias Eberle
Chief Revenue Officer,
Data Migration International
For a long time, CIOs ignored the data problem. But with the transformation to SAP S/4 Hana, this is no longer possible.
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At the latest when it becomes clear how great the effort alone is for the migration and transformation of the legacy data into the new system, completely new solutions are required. No longer a multitude of different tools, but a platform that provides these different tools as functionalities; no longer all data, but only the right data; no longer simply data, but only data of the best quality; and an approach that is technically as uncomplicated as the "brownfield approach" and as flexible as the "greenfield approach" are the order of the day.
Tobias Eberle has more than 25 years of experience in data management, data archiving and application retirement. As CRO of Data Migration International, he is responsible for providing customers with high quality products and services that help them deliver the best data quality and minimized data volume at the lowest possible cost of ownership.
Speakers: Tobias Eberle
TCO of Coding
Johann Fößleitner
Managing Director, Cadaxo
Oliver Wahrstötter
Managing Director, Cadaxo
How continuous training ensures robust and flexible coding. Key learnings from 14 years of product development at Cadaxo in the SAP environment.
SAP License Intelligence
Dr. Michael Sandmeier
Managing Director, Sandmeier Consulting
The S/4 conversion poses major challenges for license management in every respect.
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In this presentation, you will get a solution overview of current challenges in SAP license management. Together we will look at concrete examples such as the correct handling of S/4 Hana, surveying for SAP authorizations and dealing with SAP cloud management.
Speakers: Dr. Michael Sandmeier and Hendrik Ramke, both from Sandmeier Consulting
Productivity tools
Hans Haselbeck
Managing Director, Empirius
From the system copy to the alternative SolMan, the tools for SAP Basis consist of the following
SIVIS Authorization Robot
Stephanie Muñoz
Sales Manager, Sivis
The Future is now: The first virtual role consultant shows how SAP authorization concepts are created.
Exhibition and break
Fujitsu BestPlace - With AI to the optimal hybrid SAP infrastructure
Dr. Hendrik Müller
Lead Solution Architect,
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Whether on-prem or in the public cloud, with Fujitsu BestPlace you will find the right place for every SAP workload. Using AI-driven optimization, BestPlace generates a hybrid reference architecture that optimally fits your individual requirements and minimizes overall costs.
Fiori and BPM
Bernd Stransky
Principal Solutions Consultant, New Relic
SAP Backend & Fiori End-2-End Observability with Business Process Monitoring - all relevant data (SAP, none SAP) in one platform, easy and fast, without agents.
Role, authorization,
and user management
Robert Jacob
Head of Governance & Transformation, QuadriO
Lecture unfortunately cancelled!
Role, authorization and user management (in an S/4 conversion project) as a central component of SAP Basis for compliance with governance & compliance guidelines
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Only an existing user with authorizations in the front and back ends that correspond to his or her responsibilities is able to become correctly active in the system. Taking into account the basic principles of an authorization concept, this not only serves to comply with governance and compliance guidelines, but also contributes to audit-relevant system security.
Particularly in the context of an S/4 conversion project, there is the opportunity to design and implement a new authorization concept - or to revise the existing one, thus adapting it to the (new) technical and business challenges.
Speaker: Robert Jakob
Professional and technical Abap transparency
Florian Schnitzhofer
CEO Sysparency
How Continous Documentation of ABAP programs helps to solve the shortage of experts in the SAP area and creates transparency.
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In this presentation, Mr. Schnitzhofer will introduce the approach and benefits of automated analysis and documentation of SAP Abap based custom programs. Learn how the unique continuous documentation approach of SAP programs and Sysparency's products will solve your Abao expert shortage.
Sysparency's goal is to make software systems understandable and transparent. Sysparency is a market leader in automated analysis and documentation of SAP custom programs and legacy enterprise software. With our docuWIKI, customers can understand how their SAP enhancements work, make their business software more efficient, upgrade to S/4 Hana, and significantly reduce the need for Abap and software development experts.
Speaker: Florian Schnitzhofer
Exhibition
Evening event at the Stiegl Brewery World
Friday, June 2, 2023
Welcome
John N. Szalachy
IT Consultant, ASAP@ITCONSULTING
Peter M. Färbinger,
E-3 Editor in Chief, B4Bmedia.net
Highlights of the first and following second day and reference to exhibitors and sponsors
CCC/CCoE strategies and organization
John N. Szalachy
IT Consultant, ASAP@ITCONSULTING
The basic tasks of the CCC/CCoE from the perspective of the IT manager and CCC leader: legacy issues and new challenges
SAP Observability
Klaus Short
Director Solutions Consulting Central Europe, New Relic
Data-based decisions instead of guesswork: The complexity of SAP installation is notorious. Malfunctions are often difficult to resolve. A modern observability platform speeds up the detection and resolution of these problems.
SAP Security: Effectively Protect People, Processes and Technologies from Cyber Attacks
Jochen Fischer
CEO, No Monkey
SAP systems are extremely attractive targets for cyber attacks. Protecting business-critical SAP systems is a highly complex task for SAP, IT security and audit departments. Learn from NO MONKEY how to understand, assess and efficiently minimize the attack surface in SAP.
Exhibition and break
Mirabell 4-5 Mirabell 1-3
10 reasons not to fire the SAP Basis Admin
Stefan Dunsch
Head of Cloud Competence Center, itesys AG
SAP S/4 Hana Transition, cloud technologies, automation, AI attacks and much more. Why do we still need SAP Basis here?
CC in practice
Walter Schinnerer,
CCC Head of IT Services, Social Insurance
From practice for practice: A CCC inventory and wishes for SAP for a successful release upgrade.
Licensing in RISE with SAP
Michael Bohlen
Director IT Performance Strategy - IT Asset Management, TIMETOACT Group
Trust is good, control is better! Opportunities, risks and challenges in licensing in Rise with SAP: A roadmap for migration with concrete recommendations and a practical example.
SolMan and Cloud ALM
Thomas Berger
Team Leader SAP System Operations, Egger Group
The legendary SolMan has not yet had its day. With Cloud Application Lifecycle Management there is a successor
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SAP Solution Manager support ends in 2027 and the transition to SAP Cloud ALM must be planned. In the coming years, all existing SAP customers who have SolMan in use will have to consider an alternative. We have taken a closer look at the Cloud ALM roadmap and found that we have to look for alternatives for one or the other topic!
The Egger Group, headquartered in St. Johann in Tyrol, is one of the leading international wood processing companies. The family-owned company, which was founded in 1961, today produces at 21 locations worldwide with around 11,100 employees. Its customers are the furniture industry, wood retailers, as well as DIY stores and home improvement stores.
Speaker: Thomas Berger, Team Leader SAP System Operations at Egger Group
Exhibition and lunch
Automate basic operation
Ing. Nikolas Roggenbauer
Managing Director, Automatics.ai
To ensure continuous business operations, SAP systems must be performant and secure.
Proactive and secure: This is how SAP support works today
Nadine Burghardt
Head of Application Lifecycle Management and SAP Technologies, Gambit Consulting
The classic SAP AMS is no longer up to date. How exactly modern SAP support today ensures more speed in the processes, higher performance of the systems and security in the system landscape - in this presentation you will find out!
Ways to a stable and secure SAP S/4 Hana Linux platform
Friedrich Krey
Director SAP Market EMEA Central, Suse
Security, automation and high availability for S/4 hybrid cloud environments ensure operational stability during implementation and operation. On the way to an SAP Hybrid Cloud, the SUSE Technology Blueprint helps to implement the project in 7 steps in a structured way to ideally meet the requirements of the SAP application, on-prem or cloud.
The path to the SAP architecture of the future
Mag. (FH) Gerhard Pronegg, Managing Director,
Natuvion Austria GmbH
What can we learn from previous integration projects? In many companies, the course is being set for the future SAP system architecture in the course of the S/4 transformation.
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The S/4 conversion is more than a technical release upgrade. Ultimately, for many existing SAP customers, it is about the basis for an ERP architecture far beyond 2030. As a digital migration company, Natuvion Austria is a partner for the integration of modern cloud technologies. Based on a proof-of-concept that Natuvion implemented at the Tyrolean energy provider TIWAG, concrete use cases of cloud integration are presented.
Speaker: Mag. (FH) Gerhard Pronegg
Successful S/4 Hana Transformation!
Petra Kelz, BSc, Program Manager S/4HANA Transformation, VERBUND
Mag. (FH) Ewald Grohar-Krassnig, MSc, Program Manager S/4 Hana Transformation VERBUND
The best of 2 worlds: hybrid project management
Experience with SAP Cloud ALM
John Hurst
Vice President of Services Central Europe, SNP Deutschland GmbH
Rise with SAP at SNP: Experience with SAP Cloud ALM for operations and implementation when moving to the private cloud and upgrading.
Final discussion
End Summit
Summit Partner/Exhibitor
Automate SAP Basis
SAP Development Made...Alive?!
Hans.Haselbeck@empirius.de
Tel.: ++49-89-4423723-26
The automation specialist for your SAP infrastructure!
Fujitsu
As a leading full-service information and telecommunications provider, Fujitsu supports its customers in all aspects of digital transformation. To do this, the company combines IT services and products with forward-looking digital technologies - such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, analytics, digital annealing, and cloud and security solutions - and creates new value together with its customers and partners.
Head of ALM + SAP Technologies, Principal Consultant
+49 151 14 88 45 24
Nadine.Burghardt@gambit.de
Emre Cetin
Sales Executive
+41 79 533 47 16
Emre.cetin@gambit-consulting.ch
SAP with a wow effect
Hybrid Business Process Automation & Monitoring
HONICO has made it its mission to facilitate your activities in SAP Basis. As an experienced provider of Business Workload Automation we control and manage your tasks centrally and across systems, on-prem and in the cloud. Model and visualize business processes such as the SAP payment run or MRP run using our no-code platform and benefit from automated alerts and clear monitoring that meets your compliance requirements.
The No. 1 in SAP licensing consulting
Sandmeier Consulting objectively advises SAP customers on autonomous decisions around SAP. Since 2009 leading in the SAP license consulting, our portfolio ranges from sound analysis and optimization (contracts, costs, architecture, risks) to the implementation of intelligent SAP license management. The goal of SAP license consulting is the optimization of SAP license and maintenance costs, the pursuit of a sound license strategy and the control of SAP license risks.
natalie.hutterer@sysparency.com
+43 732 220053
Brings transparency to your SAP® extensions
Sysparency's goal is to make software systems understandable and transparent. Sysparency is the market leader for automated analysis and documentation of SAP® custom programs and legacy enterprise software. With our SYSPARENCY docuWIKI, customers can understand how their SAP® extensions work, make their business software more efficient, upgrade to S/4 HANA, and significantly reduce the need for ABAP® and software development experts.
Summit Sponsors
benjamin.kaulich@dm-international.com
Data Migration International Group
The Swiss Data Migration International Group has been involved in data migration and data management for more than 20 years. The core of its offering is the JiVS IMP platform, which can be used to manage the entire lifecycle of corporate data independently of systems and applications. With the help of the JiVS IMP platform, users can reduce operating costs by 80 percent, halve the migration effort to new software generations and ensure 100 percent information access and legal security. JiVS IMP thus provides numerous well-known customers such as VW, BMW, Mercedes, NEVS, Siemens, Stadler Rail, ABB, ABInBev, ALSTOM, and Commerzbank. Cost advantages as well as more flexibility and agility.
Head of Marketing & Business Development Scansor
tanja.schoeller@itesys.ch
Mobile +41 79 751 05 78
itesys, synonym for SAP Basis
Sr. Director Solution Consulting
+49 172 8280 296
kkurz@newrelic.com
Bernd Stransky
Principal Solutions Consultant
+49 160 929 46030
bstransky@newrelic.com
Observability Technologies
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